Wednesday, July 6, 2016

360 degree microphotography

Summary: we took a microscope objective to my camera, built a focus stacking rig, and then combined it all with a miniature lazy susan / turntable to create a 360 degree rotation animation of a microscopic thing (in this case a common green long-legged fly, which has some pretty spectacular colors).

Quick details:

Each frame is a stack of 70 images

160 frames (about 2.25 degrees of rotation per frame)

Final is the product of 11,200 frames (though we took well over 20,000 while testing/developing)